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▶ 15:52 · $HARVEY · Harvey builds custom legal AI harness; LangChain ran SLM judge experiment with them
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Sequoia Capital

Own Your Harness, Own Your Intelligence | Harrison Chase, LangChain

2026-08-13 · 5 company · 7 thematic
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harrison chase

Co-founded LangChain three years ago; the open-source framework has over a billion downloads and provides tools for building LLM applications, agents (LangGraph, Deep Agents), and observability/evaluation platform (LangSmith).

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“Gabe was talking about an experiment that we did with Harvey where we we significantly reduced the cost of some of these LLM as a judge type thing. So we've fine-tuned some SLMs for actually doing this.”
—harrison chase
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